In a rare move by Facebook that doesn’t have the world shaking its head in disbelief, the company’s AI researchers have…
How were giant ancient structures like Stonehenge, or the towering Moai heads on Easter Island, assembled at a time…
That sound, that sound, as they come marching.
The farther you get from the equator, the less effective solar panels become at reliably generating power all year…
Amazon’s online book store is plagued with thousands of auto-generated ebooks crudely hacked together from other texts…
Flying has become an altogether unpleasant experience, from long security lines at the airport to cramped,…
French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it…
It’s easy to shrug off a few dings on your car, but the touchscreen you’re staring at all day long? To some, a scratch…
Compared to all the electronics that power the tiny computer in your pocket; battery technology is downright…
The Phantom high-speed cameras used by YouTube channels like The Slow Mo Guys to capture mesmerizing slow-motion footage
The most effective way to block an annoying sound is to simply build a barrier—the thicker, the better. But instead of…
In a split second before you reach to pick up an object, your brain pre-calculates all the movements needed to safely…
A steady hand is needed to play a game like Jenga without toppling the tower, but being a successful block-stacker also…
Noise-cancelling headphones, like Sony’s excellent WH-1000XM3, do an impressive job of silencing the world around…
Copying one of Mother Nature’s designs is a clever shortcut when building robots that need to navigate our complex…
Mars is lacking in the vast supply of natural resources we’ve come to rely on here on Earth, and astronauts attempting…
Dogs have been everything we’ve ever needed them to be, including volunteers for clinical trials of drugs meant for…
Over the last seven years, Affetto, a “child-type android” created by researchers at the University of Osaka, has…
Point the red dot of a laser anywhere near a dog, and they’ll obsessively chase and stalk it for hours. So researchers…
Emily Penn had a mission: To find a piece of trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch large enough to stick a satellite…
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